29 Dec 2017

Desktop planetarium of the live sky above you (beta).

Stellarium is an open source desktop planetarium. It renders the skies in realtime using OpenGL, which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope. Stellarium is very simple to use, which is one of its biggest advantages: it can easily be used by beginners.

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Version 0.17.0:

Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project)

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Stellarium is an open source desktop planetarium. It renders the skies in realtime using OpenGL, which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope. Stellarium is very simple to use, which is one of its biggest advantages: it can easily be used by beginners.

Version 0.17.0:

Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project)

Added templates for translation of planetary features nomenclature

Added support of movement to selected nomenclature item

Added new tab for AstroCalc tool: Planetary Calculator

Added Icelandic translation for a couple of skycultures

Added another OS detection logging function

Added new landscape: the Sun

Added Russian translation for new landscape

Added filters for nomenclature (Search Tool/Lists)

Added support plural forms for translation (LP: #1561457)

Added deselectConstellations() method to public area

Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemerides tool

Added sane defaults to Planets

Added subclasses to the list of Solar system objects in AstroCalc/Positions tool

Added config option to allow make visible orbits for major planets only (LP: #1720722)

Added rule to allow to hide nomenclature on the celestial body of observer (LP: #1723742)